radio, going to as many gigs as i can, trivia, my kitten Baxter, playing guitar (badly), playing pool (really badly), swearing, writing, reading and second-hand bookstores, the architecture of frank lloyd wright, record shopping, making mix cd's (when i have a cd burner...), people watching, laughing at stupid, stupid things.
I'd like to meet:
anyone who thinks going home now is a bad idea. the bar is still open and your friends are bound to turn up.
Music:
devo, modest mouse, red house painters, sun kil moon, mark kozelek, the cars, ric ocasek, dead kennedys, will oldham, sub pop, buff medways/billy childish, low, ryan adams' heartbreaker, northern soul, martin denny, les baxter, ultra lounge, butthole surfers, alice donut, misfits, cramps, the drones, mclusky, steel pole bathtub, jonathan richman & modern lovers, roxy music, buzzcocks, calexico, wire, sludgefeast, mates of state, curtis mayfield, al green, broken social scene, kings of convenience, sigur ros, sufjan stevens, dexy's midnight runners (searching for the young soul rebels only...), bell x1, les savy fav, dirtbombs, iron and wine, the needles, the zutons, flaming stars, rubinoos, the saints, refused, shooting at unarmed men, mooney suzuki's alive and amplified, jilted john!, make up, digger and the pussycats, nation blue, my disco, ...and you will know us by the trail of dead's 'worlds apart' really is underrated, oh and the better off dead soundtrack rules so hard.
Movies:
stanley kubrick, coen brothers, wes anderson, john hughes, alfred hitchcock, billy wilder, jacques tati, hiyao miyazaki, jimmy stewart, jack lemmon, shaun of the dead, withnail & i, better off dead, fahrenheit 451, princess bride, a very brady sequel, phantom of the paradise, west side story, goodfellas,
Television:
black books, never mind the buzzcocks, alan partridge, phoenix nights, funniest home videos (should be re-named 'darwinism in action'), we can be heroes, coupling, mythbusters, big train, arrested development, CHiPs, harry hill's tv burp, eastenders, the bill, heartbreak high, breakers, pimp my ride, brass eye, family guy, spaced, degrassi in all its wonderful incanations, shit game shows, duckman, ren & stimpy, freaks and geeks, undeclared, entourage and of course...
The Mighty Boosh.
Books:
daniel clowes, powder, breakfast of champions, raymond carver, iain banks, nick hornby, dave eggers, will self, roald dahl, richard scarry, calvin and hobbes, and my not-so-guilty-pleasure...viz (thats a certain mr. terry fuckwitt. gawd bless 'im...)
Heroes:
mark kozelek, mark mothersbaugh, holden caufield (catcher in the rye), kilgore trout (breakfast of champions), elwood p. dowd (harvey, 1950), c.c. baxter (the apartment, 1963), wes anderson, frank lloyd wright.
